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"Another ...... This is the seventeenth, right? A Don Army officer looked at a corpse and asked the soldiers next to him with a sigh.

The soldier nodded, crouched down, and closed the eyes of the corpse, which was a girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with very beautiful eyes.

"Recently, those Persians have become more and more presumptuous, this is obviously our patrol area, this child has obviously run over, and they still don't let her go!" The officer crouched down, pulled out the arrow from the girl's back, held the shaft tightly, and glared angrily in the direction of the Persian barracks.

"General, what are we going to do? Do you want to warn the Persians? The soldier asked hesitantly.

The officer gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and sighed: "The marshal has already made a request to the Metropolitan Protectorate, the Metropolitan Protectorate is difficult to deal with, it has been reported to the imperial court, please make a decision, we still have to wait for the news, before that, we can't act rashly, Your Majesty has already ordered to stop the war and rest with the people, if we start the war, we will be responsible for all deaths." ”

The soldier looked at the girl's corpse sadly, and his eyes were full of unwillingness: "General, why do those Persians rush over rather than die?" ”

The officer looked at the childish-looking soldier and asked, "How old are you this year?" ”

The soldier replied, "Nineteen, only one year into the army." ”

The officer nodded: "Zhenguan was born in the second year, right?" That is already after the Tang Dynasty unified the world, the emperor has ascended the throne, the general is already thirty-nine, you have not experienced the former Sui chaos This general experienced it when he was a child, you haven't experienced what it feels like to have nothing to eat, it is the feeling of being able to cannibalize each other......"

The soldier looked at the officer with incredulous eyes. The officer smiled bitterly and said, "If it weren't for the fact that a well-wisher gave food to his family, he would have been eaten, and that's it, they were so hungry that they made such a move." That is, it is not difficult to understand, if you can't eat enough and have nothing to eat, it is better to be killed directly, than to starve to death slowly...... People can die in battle, die of disease, fall to death, they can die in any way, but they can't starve to death! The officer punched the ground. Viciously looking in the direction of Persia: "One day, Ben will lead the army to wipe out Persia and cut those exterminators with a thousand knives!" ”

Let the girl's body be brought back to the barracks, the officer looked at the corpses lined up in a large area of land, and no one felt uncomfortable, and those Persian fugitives who heard the news and came to look for their relatives knelt down and cried when they saw the corpses full of corpses, according to the official estimates of the Tang Dynasty, Chenghe began in April of the first year. Until October, it's only been six months. The corpses of those who fled to the east in the Tang Dynasty alone exceeded 800, and the number of those who successfully crossed the border was less than 500.

According to them, the number of Persian fugitives who were killed before crossing the border was almost twenty times more than the corpses collected by the Tang Dynasty, and this number was conservatively estimated, and the Persian interior was very cruel to the eastward escapees. If a person flees eastward, whether he succeeds or dies, his family will be implicated and sent to work as coolies, so the Persians have now reached a consensus. Either the whole family walks together or they don't.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty gasped when they heard this, more than 20 times, that is, more than 1,600 people tried to cross the border into the Tang Dynasty in six months, what kind of cruel treatment could make the Persians flee to the Tang Dynasty regardless of life and death? Tang officials also counted the families of more than 10,000 Persians who successfully crossed the border, and the total number of relatives they left in Persia was less than 1,000, that is to say, only a small part of the people who fled to the east out of their relatives, and according to the oral accounts of those who fled to the east, the relatives of those who fled to the east were all assigned, either to serve in the army or to work as coolies, and there was no way to live.

The rate of population loss is shocking.

The officer's brow furrowed, but at this moment, a cry interrupted his thoughts.

"General Zhao, the marshal has sent someone to deliver a letter!" A herald took a letter and handed it to General Zhao, General Zhao took the letter, opened it, his face changed, his brows furrowed tightly, and then he stretched out, put down the letter, and he immediately summoned all the officers and officers above the commander of the local military camp and brigade to enter his military tent for a meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the general has already received a letter from the marshal, and His Majesty the Emperor personally ordered the Anxi Protectorate to order the Persian Tang Border Border Guards under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate to change their attitude towards the Persians from today, and set up more patrols in the area of ten miles to the west, especially outside the blockade line set up by the Persians, the patrols of the Tang Army should directly observe the situation there, and once they find that a Persian refugee has crossed the line, they must immediately step forward to protect it, and they can no longer be shot by Persian archers as before!" General Zhao held up the letter and said excitedly.

The officers in the barracks looked at each other, and one of them asked, "Your Majesty?" Promised us? ”

General Zhao nodded: "That's right, Your Majesty promised us!" Now Ben will command! We can't blatantly move the barracks there, but our troops can get there, we can monitor the blockade set up by the Persians day and night, and if any Persian refugees succeed in crossing the border, we must immediately come to our aid, and no one will suffer so much! ”

The officers promised in unison: "No! ”

General Zhao watched the officers leave the barracks, a little relieved, since he was transferred to this place in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he kept asking the commander of the border army, Jiao Changhe, to do this, Jiao Dashuai seemed to want to do this, and the Anxi Metropolitan Hufu Dadu Duhe seemed to want to do this, but the emperor at that time, the current Emperor Li Er, Xià, had been suppressing the army's request.

In April of this year, the crown prince Li Chengqian was given the throne of the emperor, and Li Chengqian ascended the throne as emperor and changed the yuan to Chenghe, and he immediately asked Jiao Changhe to allow him to do so, and Jiao Changhe continued to ask the capital of Anxi to protect Du He, and Du He asked the new emperor Li Chengqian, but Li Chengqian did not reply at first, but a few months later, the reply came - permission.

The news gradually spread, and the entire Anxi Army was a little inexplicably excited. In particular, those cadet officers of the military academy who regarded honor as more important than their lives had long been suppressed, and the new emperor and new principal Li Chengqian allowed their request, which suddenly made them feel a lot more relieved, and their perception of the new emperor and new principal suddenly became much better.

Of course, Li Chengqian's request was carried out on the premise of not touching the bottom line of the Persians. If Persia really wants to go to war with the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty can win, it will outweigh the losses, and there is no more strength to govern the Persian homeland and the Persians, so for the time being, you can't overstimulate the Persians, let the Persians continue to fight with the Romans, and consume their little remaining vitality!

The Persians did not know about the change in the policy here of the Tang Dynasty, so they treated the eastward escapees as cruel as ever. Gradually, it was difficult for the Tang army to suppress their feelings.

Speaking of which, those Persian border guards were originally quite sympathetic to those who fled eastward, but sympathy is sympathy, no one will get along with their own stomachs, Persia has been fighting all year round, the productivity has been ruined, the upper class is corrupted, and life is luxurious. The lower strata of the ruling class have suffered together, and the polarization in the military has become severe. It just so happened that the phenomenon of eastward fugitives was very strict, and at the beginning, there was even a phenomenon of soldiers secretly assisting eastward escapers, as long as the eastward escapers gave them property.

Somehow someone in the advisory group knew about this phenomenon, and it was okay, didn't this mean that it reduced their opportunities to enjoy? One less person is less productive, and they have to be less extravagant. How could they, who were already accustomed to luxury, accept it? As a result, a poisonous plan appeared, from an old adviser of the advisory group.

Covertly cut the rations and salaries of the Po-Tang border guards, and then set up a system whereby each of the fugitives from the east was killed. The border guards are rewarded with a bag of grain or a five-pound piece of meat or money, which is chosen by themselves, and the principle of whether they are promoted or not is determined by the number of people who have fled to the east killed.

After that, the survival situation of the eastward escapees on the Polish-Tangtang border took a sharp turn for the worse, which is the fundamental reason why the eastward escapees would be shot by Persian archers even if they crossed the border.

This news was reported to the new emperor Li Chengqian after being detected by the blood drops in Persia, Li Chengqian was furious, and the court was one-sided accusations for the emergence of this situation, although he did not approve of the Tang Dynasty interfering in this matter, but this is also an important reason for Li Chengqian's attitude to change, his mother's future land and population are my Tang Dynasty's things, you fucking are now killing, leave the mess to me, I will help you wipe your ass?

After Li Chengqian ascended the throne, he served the first letter of state to the Persian Empire as the emperor, informing them of the current and future decisions of the Tang Dynasty, as well as Li Chengqian's concern about the attitude towards refugees within the Persian Empire. How do we end up? You say yes, right?

The Persian little emperor was confused by the letter of the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and I don't know how the Tang side learned of their internal resolution against the eastward escapees, but now that the letter of the Tang Dynasty has arrived, and there is a little change in attitude towards Persia, he is annoyed by the brutality and inhumanity of the upper echelons of the Persian Empire, and even "very likely" intends to let the army intervene.

The Persian high-level has been accustomed to it for so many years, from the moment they heard the sound of artillery, they trembled when they saw the Tang people, from the heart to the trembling of their legs and feet, from the government to the army, they were like this, when they saw the Tang Dynasty, they were soft, the old emperor Li Shimin was like a lion and tiger, and he was not polite to them, they secretly hated Li Shimin in their hearts, but they were helpless, and finally waited until the old emperor abdicated and the new emperor ascended the throne, the Persians thought that the young new emperor was more gentle, and the new emperor turned out to be more bullish than his father, Credentials were issued directly......

The Persians were rather depressed.

But the survival of the eastward escapees is really difficult for them to sleep, three shocks in one night, the mainland is okay, the phenomenon of people fleeing east near the border areas of the Tang Dynasty is very strict, at that time, even some soldiers and officials will flee eastward, enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty to live a good life, the Persians are also greedy, how can the Tang Dynasty be so rich, how can there be so much land, but they can't help it, one less person is less strength, absolutely to curb the occurrence of this situation.

Said so, do the same, but the effect is not obvious, the Tang army and merchants had a very good impression of the Persians before, the market for those rumors is not very large, except for those Persians who have never seen the Tang people, they believe it, and the Persians who have seen the Tang people and even have direct contact with the Tang people do not believe it, especially in the border areas, the rumors are almost extinct, and they can't be heard at all.

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